This Press Kit summarizes our Brand Guidelines (inc. logos) and Information about Valory (e.g. for Press Releases)
The "Valory" name, the Valory logo, the "Olas", “Propel” and "Pearl" brands, and other Valory trademarks, are property of Valory AG (aka Valory), considered Offerings subject to our Terms, meaning you may use them only as described therein.
These guidelines are intended to help our partners, grant recipients, sponsors, customers, developers, consultants, publishers, and any other third parties understand how to use and display our trademarks and copyrighted work in their own assets and materials.
Do:
- Use the Valory logo in articles, blog posts or other media mentions of Valory
- Use our logo to link to valory.xyz
- Request written approval to publicly mention an existing relationship between you and Valory, e.g. a partnership, sponsorship, or grant program.
- Use the specific language used in writing by us regarding the relationship, e.g. 'we have received a grant from Valory' or 'we are sponsoring Valory's event'.
Do not:
- Use the Valory logo (or part of our logo) in a way that implies Valory’s endorsement or sponsorship of a project, service, product or individual
- Misrepresent, embellish, or invent a relationship between us and you (for example by implying a partnership where there exists only a grant, or referring to non-finalized agreements). Valory has official partnerships and specific language about these partnerships, as well as non-partnership language guidance. If you are not an official partner, please don’t use “collaborated with,” “worked with,” or “partnered with,” in any form. (See above for accurate language.)
- Alter the Valory logo in any way, including colors
- Use the Valory logo pr logomark as part of, or in combination with another logo for any purpose
- Download the .zip file here, the individual logo files are numbered in descending order of preference.
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Primary, for headlines: Neue Machina, available here
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Secondary, for body copy: Space Grotesk, available here
When mentioning our company in your press materials, we kindly ask that you review the following information.
- Valory is a research and deployment company at the intersection of crypto and AI. Specifically, the premier creator of open-source frameworks for co-owned AI. Valory's mission is to enable communities, organizations, and countries to co-own AI systems, beginning with decentralized autonomous agents. Read more here. Valory is the VC-backed team of engineers, researchers, and commercial executors that co-founded the Olas DAO^, contribute to the Olas Protocol and Olas Stack, and built the first agents using Olas.
- Valory is the pioneer of co-owned AI, currently focussed on leveraging Olas via its 1) business-to-consumer offering: Pearl, the AI Agent App Store enabling anyone to go from paying for agents they rent to earning from agents they own; 2) the business-to-business offering: Mech Marketplace, the AI Agent Bazaar that agents & agent builders can use to hire other agents; 3) Agents Unleashed, sharing the latest news in AI agents, via the in-person events series and podcast.
- Useful links: Website, Twitter, LinkedIn, Github
^Autonolas is now known as Olas, for short.
What is Autonolas/Olas?
- Valory raised a $4 million equity Seed round in 2021.
- Valory raised a $13.8 million OTC round in 2024.
| Name | Role | Longer Bio | Shorter bio | Links |
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| David M | CEO | David Minarsch led the team which built the first framework for developing Multi Agent Systems in the DLT space. He has founding experience via Entrepreneur First and a PhD in Applied Game Theory from the University of Cambridge. | Creator of the first multi-agent systems framework for crypto. PhD Applied Game Theory, University of Cambridge. | Twitter LinkedIn Headshot |
| David G | CTO | David Galindo is a renowned scientist in the field of cryptography. He has served as an Associate Professor of Computer Security at University of Birmingham and holds the world record for number of votes in a live digital voting ballot. | Ex-Professor of Cybersecurity, University of Birmingham. Extensively published. | Twitter LinkedIn Headshot |
| Gemma | COO | Gemma is a serial entrepreneur, selected for Jumpstart’s top 1% of UK early-careerists. She has been founding and consulting for innovative businesses and charities since 2015. As Valory’s first team member and a founding member at Olas, she has established Valory's operations, playing a pivotal role in its wider success. She has a degree in modern languages from the University of Edinburgh. | Serial entrepreneur, Jumpstart’s top 1% of UK early-careerists. Prev over a decade in consulting. | Twitter LinkedIn Headshot |
| Ellie Hirschhorn | CGO | Ellie has worked at the intersection of tech and media for 20 years. Valory is her fifth startup. Most recently she was COO & President of Media at CoinDesk. She has a MBA from Harvard Business School and a BA in History from Yale. | 20+ years at intersection of tech and media. Former COO & President of Media, CoinDesk. MBA from Harvard Business School. | Twitter LinkedIn Headshot |
The team’s expertise has research depth via 9 PhDs and spans commercial, product, engineering, marketing, research, operations and more.
Other key team members have held senior roles in project and engineering at Facebook, Google, Ava Labs, Huawei, SberBank, Fetch.ai, Revolut, PwC, JP Morgan, Accenture, Microsoft Research Cambridge, and more.
- If you have any questions not answered here, please reach out to us at admin@valory.xyz.